U.S. ambassador in Cairo Anne Patterson met on Wednesday (October 10) with Coptic activists who spoke to her about the status of religious minorities in Egypt under President Muhammad Mursī, a few days after her meeting with Egyptian Shiite leaders who told her they applied for the Dutch government for seeking asylum to the Netherlands to “escape persecution”. [Magi Kamāl, al-Sabāh, Oct. 12, p. 3] Read text in Arabic